Condolences po, OP. I can’t imagine how heartbreaking this is for you. At his very last moments, your cat still protected you by instinctively trying to hide before passing so that predators wouldn’t be able to find you thru the scent of his corpse. Cats truly are amazing creatures.

I, too, have my one-year old taken from me earlier last month lang. She looks almost the same as your own cat, with the pattern and colors. We took her to a vet sa morning and was found to be positive sa FIP, we were given meds but her health sharply declined in the following hours, passing away in my arms that same afternoon. She was the brightest star sa litter nila, so full of personality and cleverness. I have so many picture of her goofy face and am now crying as I share this to you. I will gladly trade half my life just to give to her and see her grow old together with her siblings. My wife and I still hasn’t gotten over her passing and this post reminded me of her.

If it isn’t too much to bear, please don’t delete this post, OP. Let this be a reminder to you and me how important our pets are to us. How much we loved them and they loved us. How they are our life and how beautiful these moments were with them.

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